"The Good, the Bad, and the Tigger" |
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| Season 4, Episode 4 | |
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| Production Information | |
| Director |
Carole Beers & Charles A. Nichols Ken Kessel (Supervising Director) |
| Writer | Stephen Sustarsic |
| Prod code | 404 |
| Airdate | September 28, 1991 |
| Episode Chronology | |
| Previous | A Pooh Day Afternoon |
| Next | Home Is Where the Home Is |
The Good, The Bad and the Tigger is the fourth episode of the fourth season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It originally aired on September 28, 1991 on ABC.
Synopsis[]
Tigger accidentally lost Christopher Robin’s toy train and he and Pooh are put on trial as train robbers.
Plot[]
Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit and Piglet are at Christopher Robin’s house and are playing with his remote control model train set. Tigger wants a turn to run the train, but Christopher Robin is sure Tigger isn’t ready yet and mentions that trains are not easy to run. Tigger denies this (stating that “Running trains is what Tiggers do the best”); but then wonders where the train’s propeller is. Rabbit replies that trains do not have propellers, but also points out that it seems to be missing its rudder. Piglet comes into the room, steps onto the tracks, and is chased by the train (“Oh d-d-d-dear, oh d-d-d-dear, oh d-d-d-deary-dear”); Pooh asks if Piglet is enjoying playing with the train. Piglet bumps into a small arch made of blocks and falls into the tracks and sees the train heading toward him; but then Christopher’s mother calls her son and Christopher turns off the train. Piglet stands up and is relieved that he didn’t “get it in the end”; but the train jerks forward and bumps Piglet down again (Piglet: “I guess I did”). As Christopher Robin heads downstairs for lunch, he instructs everyone else to not touch his train until he returns. Tigger states he’ll keep an eye on everyone and Christopher Robin leaves his room.
With Christopher Robin now gone, Tigger suggests they take his train for “a little ring-a-ding spin”. Piglet objects to this, pointing out that something terrible might happen, and suggests that the gang instead go outside and play a nice quiet game called “Guess Who’s Sleeping”. Rabbit asks how the winner will know he won if he’s asleep; and a sleepy Pooh answer that they can tell him when he wakes up. Then Rabbit points out that Pooh is taking an unfair head start by trying to go to sleep; and he goes on to state “We all have to be awake to go to sleep; otherwise the person who’s asleep won’t be awake, right?” Rabbit and Piglet walk out of Christopher’s Robin’s room as the discussion progresses; leaving Tigger and Pooh by themselves with the train. Then Tigger picks up the controls to the train and tells Pooh that it’s their chance to run it; but Pooh points out that Christopher Robin said not to touch it. However Tigger points out that he’s not touching the “train” but its “controls”. Pooh adds “Aren’t the controls part of the train?” and Tigger responds “Nah, they don’t even know each other.” Tigger wiggles a control, and then roughly throws the controls on the hard floor (Pooh cringes as if Tigger was going to break them); they are not broken, but the train starts up. A worried Pooh suggests they should introduce the train and the controls to each other; and Tigger replies that Christopher Robin won’t mind if they borrow the train, especially if he doesn’t find out (Tigger whispers that last part to himself). As Tigger is playing, then Pooh notices the train is heading for points in which one direction has the tracks end right after; Pooh points this out to Tigger (“I hope the train stops before the train… ‘stops’.”) Seeing what will happen and realizing he can’t “steer” the train, Tigger decides to lay down more tracks for the train to follow (“…maybe I can ‘steer’ the tracks”). Tigger gets more tracks and starts laying them just in time; he lays them toward a wall, up the wall, around and back down the wall, and out of Christopher Robin’s room. The train somehow makes it though Tigger’s obstacle and continues along the tracks out of Christopher’s room. (Tigger: “Hey, where ya’ going? Runaway train! Runaway train!”) then Tigger and Pooh leave Christopher’s Room to catch the train.
A little while later, Rabbit and Piglet come back in Christopher’s room; Rabbit trips on the tracks leading out as he enters, and then notices the train is gone; Piglet also adds that Tigger and Pooh are gone as well. Rabbit remembers how Tigger mentioned touching the train and suspects that he and Pooh stole it. Piglet replies; “No, that can’t be. Pooh’s not a train robber, and Tigger’s not a… Pooh’s not a train robber. Train robber. Train robber. Train robber…” As Piglet continues pondering, we fade from reality into an old western fantasy, and the first thing we see is a life sized version of Christopher Robin’s toy train coming out of a tunnel and being named Westley the Runaway Train Engine, who is hauling a coach, boxcar, and caboose, and Tigger (dotting black, western desperado attire) giving chase on foot. Tigger manages to grab onto the caboose, climbs on top, and proceeds to dash along the top of the train cars toward the engine, but bumps into solid rock above a tunnel entrance and lands back in the caboose after sliding off (Tigger is relieved as he states to himself he almost lost his hat). Now Tigger makes his way toward the engine by going though the train cars, and hops over the tender and into the cab to find Sheriff Pooh (dotting a black, western hat, a blue neckerchief and black boots) at the controls. He asks Sheriff Pooh how he got there so fast, and Pooh responds by pointing out that this is a fantasy. Then Tigger takes the controls and attempts to figure out how to run the train; he pulls three levers, but it seems to have no effect. Then Tigger decides to take a “delicatessen touch”; he grabs a wooden mallet and roughly bangs the controls with it, causing them to go crazy and the train to go wild (Tigger and Sheriff Pooh begin screaming as if they were on a roller coaster). Then Gopher (dotting a brown, western hat and vest) pops up between two ties in the tracks wonder what all the commotion is; he sees the train speeding toward him and immediately screams and scrambles back underground to avoid getting run over by the engine’s cowcatcher. Gopher takes shelter in a tunnel to stay out of the way “until the fools’ rush is over”; suddenly, the train races into the tunnel toward Gopher, who immediately runs for his life, out of the tunnel and off a bridge into a stream of water below. As we see Gopher carried away by the water, we fade into the view of an old western town. We see Rabbit (dotting western townsfolk attire) calling for help as the train has been stolen and goes to find sheriff Piglet (who we see dotting a white Sheriff’s hat, a gold, star shaped Sheriff’s Badge, and white boots).
Meanwhile in the train, Tigger (having a wonderful time) checks the furnace and then asks Pooh to feed it so that Tigger can figure out how to stop the train; Pooh agrees and adds that it might like some honey as he knows he would. Back at the Sheriff’s office (Sheriff incorrectly misspelled “SHERUF”), Rabbit briefs Sheriff Piglet on what happened and tells him that the town is depending on him to hunt down desperado Tigger and Pooh. Then he hands Piglet a belt with pouches containing ice cream scoops where small pistols would be (ice cream scoops are substituted for pistols in this western fantasy). However Piglet objects that Pooh would never take a train (“…honey perhaps, but not a train”); Rabbit disagrees, stating that “anyone who acts that innocent must not be as innocent as he acts.” Eeyore (dotting a sombrero) comes in the room, stating that it’s just another story of a bear gone bad. Then Piglet decides to take the job, but states he’ll need some deputies; Eeyore states to Rabbit “guess that means us.” Piglet opens a chest containing two gold star shaped badges; he puts one on Rabbit’s chest, and the other on Eeyore’s left flank. We now see the train heading for a station and Piglet at the platform; he pulls out a long document and unrolls it to read it (it’s so long it goes across the tracks), and begins: “By the power invested in me as Sheriff of this fantasy, I arrest you for train-napping in the 17th Degree, and furthermore…” But before Piglet can finish, the train speeds though the station and shreds the document into confetti; Pooh sees this and states “Oh look Tigger, Piglet’s giving us a Parade.” As the train speeds off, Tigger calls out “Hey Piglet old pal, can you help me stop this choo choo?” Meanwhile, Rabbit is riding Eeyore to catch the train, and is telling Eeyore to go faster he claims they are gaining on them; Eeyore sarcastically remarks “maybe you’d like to change places for a while”. Right on cue, the train speeds past them, spinning them around and literally changing their places (Eeyore: “Never mind”). We next see Piglet attempting to lasso the train; he manages to get a hold of the caboose, but is only pulled along in midair as he hangs on to his rope. Piglet remarks to himself that perhaps lassoing the train wasn’t such a smart idea; the train then races though the station again, and Piglet is left behind on the train’s water tower’s spout. While Rabbit continues to pursue the train on Eeyore (telling him to go faster), Piglet (still on the water tower’s spout) sees the train coming and has made a plan to hop aboard on the count of 7. While counting, Pooh gives a friendly hello to Piglet; Piglet replies, slips off the spout, and falls onto a cactus below, leading him to bounce around as he’s poked (Pooh: “Oh, look, now Piglet’s dancing”).
Piglet, Rabbit and Eeyore now resort to pursuing the train on a railroad handcart. Soon they reach an incline and begin to gather speed as they coast downward; Rabbit asks Sheriff Piglet how to slow the handcart down. We go back to the train as it follows the tracks into a body of water (with Tigger screaming as if he’s on a roller coaster); the train emerges waterlogged but unharmed and still moving forward on the tracks. Tigger wonders what else to do: “I’ve pulled every switch, I’ve switched every pull, and it still won’t stop!” Then Pooh points out a pedal on the floor and asks Tigger “Did you ‘pull’ this one?” Tigger steps on the Pedal, and the train finally stops suddenly; but the force of the sudden stop jettisons the entire train into the air. Each train car and the engine all flip backward in midair and land neatly back on the tracks in one piece, with the train cars and the engine in the same order as they were before, but with the whole train now facing the other way; and after a brief moment, the train speeds off again. We also see Tigger’s hat blow out of the cab and land on a mail crane alongside the tracks. Meanwhile, the handcart carrying Piglet, Rabbit, and Eeyore is now speeding out of control, and everyone is screaming in fright and holding on for dear life. Much to their horror, they see their track (which is running high up along the side of a rock formation) is damaged up ahead; and unable to stop, they run off the tracks and plummet down toward another line of tracks on the ground below. Gopher pops up between two ties on these tracks and hears Piglet, Rabbit, and Eeyore falling toward him; he ponders for a brief moment at what the sound might be, and then looks up and screams in fright as he sees what’s coming at him. The handcart lands neatly on the tracks in one piece and continues speeding along; Gopher was picked up as the handcart landed (Gopher: “...get me off this thing!”). Meanwhile, back on the train, Tigger hastily pulls more levers, and this only makes the train go even faster. Then Tigger looks out from the cab and spots his hat on the mail crane from earlier, so he reaches out from the engine's cab to grab it and succeeds, only to get snagged by the noose and left behind as the train speeds onward with Pooh, who looks back for a brief moment at Tigger before looking ahead and seeing the handcart carrying Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, and Gopher speeding out of control straight toward him ("BOTHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!") as the engine blows his whistle. Everyone screams in fright and covers their eyes as their respective vehicles charge toward each other head-on, and sure enough, they both collide in a huge explosion.
The impact jettisons Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore and Gopher into the air, and the entire train and handcart are badly blown to pieces in the wreck. Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit and Gopher land on each other, and Eeyore bounces off them. Eeyore remarks to himself “What do you know: Didn’t get the worst of it”; but then sees airborne parts from the train land right next to him. Everyone gets up, but Piglet (despite his faith in his friend) is forced to arrest Pooh for train-robbing as he was the only one in the train during the crash. Tigger (still caught in the mail crane) watches from afar in grief as Pooh is taken away: “This is terribibble, horribibble; they think ‘The Pooh with a name’ is an outlaw. Gasp, they must think I’m an outlaw too. All I did was borrow one incy wincy train. Well, at least it’s not a total loss; I got my hat back.”
At Sheriff Piglet’s office, Pooh is put in jail in a rather unusual jail cell (the bars are not closely spaced enough to prevent someone from walking though them; and there is no back wall, allowing anyone locked behind the bars to simply walk outside into the desert; no one notices this) and Piglet is interrogating Pooh as to why he took the train. Piglet warns Pooh that if he does not come up with a good excuse, he will have to face the judge (and mentions the Judge hesitantly); a wave of fear washes over everyone at the mentioning of the judge. Everyone goes into the cell and looks out into the desert at a sinister looking swing set with Gopher (now in different western attire than he was wearing earlier) playing a sinister tune on his harmonica. “And guess who gets to play the Judge” says Gopher. He goes on “Looks like there’s gonna be a ‘swinging’” and laughs wickedly. Apparently, “swinging” is this western fantasy’s substitute for the old west’s common punishment of “hanging” (just like ice cream scoops substituting guns), thus making Judge Gopher a “swinging judge”; not understanding this, Pooh gleefully comments how wonderful “a swinging” would be as he loves to swing. Piglet, sure that Pooh's sentence isn't going to work out, replies, “Oh d-d-d-dear.”
Later that night, Tigger tiptoes toward the Sheriff’s office, quietly enters the (coincidentally lockless) front door, walks past a sleeping Rabbit, Eeyore, and Sheriff Piglet, grabs the keys to the cell and proceeds to unlock it to set Pooh free. Pooh (also asleep) wakes up and loudly says hello to Tigger, prompting him to coincidentally go though the bars to hush Pooh; then he walks back out and opens the cell door. However Pooh feels that he should stay, but Tigger reminds Pooh that he is innocent and that he actually borrowed the train. Despite Pooh adding that he thinks he has “one of those guilty faces only a mother could love”, Tigger drags him along though the back of the cell where a wall should be and into the desert. Pooh stops briefly to say goodbye to Piglet; a sleepy Piglet bids him goodbye, and then wakes up completely, realizing too late that Pooh escaping is bad (“Escaping!? Oh d-d-d-dear!”).
The next morning, we find Tigger and Pooh walking through the desert and discussing the situation. Tigger mentions to Pooh that he should have told Sheriff Piglet and company that he had nothing to do with the train napping, and Pooh adds they all thought he was guilty and didn’t want to let them down. Tigger goes onto say that he only mean to borrow the train as no one would let him touch it. Pooh suggests that he and Tigger turn themselves in, and adds that they could get off to a fresh start after swinging; Pooh also mentions (rubbing his tummy) that he wants to collect the reward. However Tigger refuses that, stating that although he feels bad, he doesn’t feel that bad; and he states that he and Pooh should put their thinking caps on to figure another way out. While thinking, Pooh mentions that it’s too bad they can’t fix the train; but Tigger thinks that is a terrific idea (“If we fix the train, we won’t have to turn ourselves in”). Tigger and Pooh arrive at the scene of the train wreck and get started (Pooh expresses a little uncertainty, stating that he’s never been good with puzzles); after a while, they manage to assemble a rather unusual choo choo of the old runaway tenderless engine (among other abnormalities, the smoke stack is behind the cab, the bell is where the smoke stack would usually be located, and the hand pump from the hand cart is protruding through the cab windows); and Pooh adds that they only had to use half the parts. Then Tigger takes Pooh to hide out, stating that Sheriff Piglet and company will find the train, and he and Pooh will be “home free”; while they are not looking, their train starts up and goes off by itself. Not long afterwards, Tigger and Pooh literally bump into Sheriff Piglet, who loads his ice creams scoops with strawberry ice cream (held by Eeyore) and pulls the scoops on Tigger and Pooh (Piglet: “Stick ‘em up, outlaws, if you please. I-I’ve got you covered.”); Tigger and Pooh put their hands up and surrender. Then Tigger (walking backwards and not looking at the tracks) takes everyone to where the train should be, telling them they reassembled the train and left it there for them to find; Rabbit asks where it is now and Tigger realizes that the train is gone. All Pooh can say is that they perhaps misplaced it.
Tigger and Pooh are returned to the Sheriff’s office and put in jail; Tigger begs to be let out as he could not take it (even though he could walk though the bars or out the back as there is still no wall there). However Pooh points out that they were only been in the cell for five minutes; this calms Tigger down who mentions that it seemed like six minutes. Eeyore mentions to Pooh and Tigger that their life looks even more depressing than his own right now, and adds that he never thought he would hear himself say that. A saddened Sheriff Piglet mentions to Pooh how disappointed he is in his trusted friend and chokes up; Pooh lends Piglet his neckerchief as he agrees (“I shouldn’t have done what I did, even if I didn’t know what I did.”) Tigger begs for Sheriff Piglet to go easy on Pooh, adding “I think he ate too much honey and couldn’t help himself.” However Rabbit states that it’s too late for that and Tigger and Pooh are going to get what they deserve, and he points to the sinister looking swing set from earlier, with Judge Gopher playing his harmonica sinisterly. “Looks like there’s gonna be a double swinging tonight” adds Judge Gopher, and he laughs wickedly. Pooh, still unable to understand states to Tigger “How wonderful. Do you think I could go first?” But Tigger could not let Pooh take that sort of fall for him and loudly confesses to Sheriff Piglet that he was the trainnapper and Pooh had nothing to do with it. Piglet is glad to hear that Pooh is innocent, and opens the cell door to let Pooh out, come into the cell and jumps into Pooh’s arms. Then Rabbit confronts Tigger and demands to know what happened to the train, adding that it could not have rolled off by itself; but right on cue, the train (having come off the tracks somehow) comes charging toward Judge Gopher and his swing set; Gopher dodges the train just in time, but his swing set is destroyed. The train continues toward the back of the Sheriff’s office and everyone runs to get away; they all run outside and the train runs through the Sheriff’s office and destroys it. For some reason, the train is particularly interested in pursuing Piglet, and eventually sweeps him up; Piglet then hangs onto the cow catcher for dear life as the train continues rampaging though the town.
Eeyore says that they got to do something to save Piglet; Rabbit concurs and asks who would like to be the new Sheriff. Tigger, however states that he’ll stop the runaway choo choo and rescue Piglet, “dead or alive.” Tigger grabs two paint brushes and dips them in some black paint, and proceeds to quickly paint some train tracks on the ground for the train to follow; stating that he “never known a train yet that could resist following tracks”. Tigger is right; after the tracks are finished, the train could not help but rush over and continuously follow them. Tigger then states that all they need to do is wait for the train to run out of steam and stop; they wait a long time (we see the sun go down, come back up, go back down, and come back up again; as well as everyone falling asleep). As Tigger peels a banana, he states that he would give the train “7 more days tops”, and throws the peel on the tracks. Without stopping, the train rushes toward the banana peel and slips on it, causing it to skid sideways and crash off-screen, demolishing it once more. Piglet emerges dizzy and his hat damaged, but is otherwise unharmed. Piglet thanks Tigger for saving his life and the town, “…even if it took you two weeks to do it.” But Rabbit points out that Tigger is still a trainnapper and all the trouble they had gone though could have been avoided had it not been for him. Pooh however defends Tigger, stating that he only meant to train borrow before it got out of control. However, Piglet adds that borrowing without permission is really bad as well, especially if you do not say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. However Tigger begs for another chance and promises to hang up his ice cream scoops for good. Piglet, Pooh, Rabbit and Eeyore huddle up, and decide to let Tigger off this time with a warning, much to Judge Gopher’s dismay (“And I was all set for a good swinging, dag nabbit!”).
We now fade back into reality and find that Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet and Eeyore (who strangely was not there before the fantasy started) have put Christopher Robin’s train set back the way it was before, and just in time as Christopher Robin returned from lunch. Thinking that they did not touch his train while he was out, he gives everyone a change to operate the controls, starting with Tigger as he wanted it so much. But after all Tigger had just been though, he refuses (saying he’s “trying to cut back”) and suggests they instead go outside and play “guess who’s sleeping”. Rabbit (who states Pooh is cheating again), Piglet (who asks if he could borrow a pillow), Pooh and Eeyore follow. After a brief moment, Christopher Robin runs to catch up with everyone (stating that he wants to play too), and then the episode ends.
Characters[]
- Winnie the Pooh
- Piglet
- Tigger
- Rabbit
- Eeyore
- Gopher
- Christopher Robin
- Christopher Robin's Mom (voice only)
- condor (cameo)
Cast[]
Credits[]
Produced by
WALT DISNEY
TELEVISION ANIMATION
Producer/Supervising Director
KEN KESSEL
Co-Producer/Story Editor
MARK ZASLOVE
Producer
Story Editor
Directors
Written by
With the Voice Talents of
PETER CULLEN
as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
Assistant Producers
Storyboard Designers
Storyboard Revisions
Key Layout Design
Character Designers
Prop Design
Background Stylists
Color Stylist
Supervising Timing Director
Timing Directors
Continuity Coordinators
MYRNA BUSHMAN
BARBARA DONATELLI
Track Reader
Script Coordinators
Archives Supervisor
Art Coordinator
Post Production Manager
Post Production Supervisor
Sound Dubbing Supervisor
CHRISTOPHER KEITH
Post Production Coordinators
Talent Coordinator
Post Production Assistant
Production Assistants
STEPHANIE ELLIOTT MICHELLE ROBINSON
WILLIAM WAGGONER JOHANNE BEAUDOIN
Shipping Coordinator
Managing Film Editor
Supervising Editor
CHARLIE KING, M.P.S.E.
Supervising Music Editor
BRIAN F. MARS
Sound Editors
RICK HINSON, M.P.S.E.
DAVID LYNCH
JERRY WINICKI
TIMOTHY J. BORQUEZ, M.P.S.E.
Dialogue Editors
Assistant Editors
Songs Written and Produced by
STEVE NELSON
Music by
&
Animation Production by
Animator
JOHN KIM
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©1991 THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Walt Disney
Television
Distributed by
Buena Vista International, Inc.
Quotes[]
- Tigger: Say, where's the propeller on this thing?
- Rabbit: Tigger, trains don’t have propellers! Although it does seem to be missing its rudder.
- Tigger: I am the Tigger with no name!
- Pooh: I am the Pooh with a name...if I could remember what it is.
- Tigger: Say, how did you get here so fast?
- Pooh: It's a fantasy.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
The poster for The Good The Bad and the Ugly, to which this episode is based on.
- This episode was recorded on February 18, 1991.
- This episode’s title is derived from the classic 1966 Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name.
- This is the second and last episode in the series with a Western feel to it, the first being Paw and Order. Some background music from said episode is also recycled here.
- When the train collides with the handcar, the locomotive explodes in a massive wreck. In real life, running into a handcar would not cause a train to derail or explode; rather the train would simply destroy the handcar to splinters. Regardless, Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore and Gopher would have still had to jump for it to avoid being injured or even killed.
- Despite the fact that this is seen in a fantasy sequence, in reality, it seems next to impossible for the train to brake so hard that the engine and all the cars would come off the rails into the opposite direction. In addition, actual brakes on a locomotive aren’t the same as an automobile. They’re normally either a lever or a valve. (Though it's still implied that none of the animals know how such a train works in real life, and were making it up as they go along.)
- The engine on the train in the opening scene is a 2-2-0 or a Planet type steam engine, which has two wheels (two leading wheels, two driving wheels, and no trailing wheels), and was only built during the pioneer railroad days, circa 1830.
- The engine, Westley, on the train in the dream is a 4-4-0 or an American type steam engine, prior to being destroyed in a train wreck along with the handcar. These types of engines have eight wheels (four leading wheels, four driving wheels, and no trailing wheels), and were used most common on American railroads during the 1800s and 1830s until 1928 and were given the name “American” in 1872 to show all the work they did on every railroad in the United States.
- Usually, a steam engine’s tender normally carries four wheel bogies to make up for a total of eight wheels, except Westley, the 4-4-0 engine, who only has four wheels on his tender, and pulls a coach, a boxcar, and a caboose.
- Much like in the episode A Knight to Remember, Gopher appears in the fantasy sequence, but not in the real world.
- Paul Winchell takes over the voice of Tigger.
- First Episode of Supervising Music Editor Brian F. Mars.
- First Episode of Jill Colbert and Robert Souza.
- First Episode of Jerry Winicki, Jenny Harrison, Andy Rose, James N. Harrison, Robb S. Paulsen.
- First Episode of Tom Bird and Selma Gladney.
- Last Episode of Stephanie Elliott.
- First Episode of Barbara Donatelli.
- First Episode of Judy Maxey.
- Timothy J. Borquez of Horta Editorial and Sound starts assisting Rich Harrison and his editorial team for the remainder of the series, albeit credited.